Space Trader: Merchant Marine
Skip · Shooter · 2008
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 6.9h 15h to 100%
- Value
- $0.72/hr
- Reviews
- 50% of 642 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Space Trader is an open world trading colony sim wrapped in a shooter. Start as a Rookie and earn your way to Master using shrewd trades, back alley deals, bribes, and well-placed bullet. Buy low, sell high and don’t take no for an answer.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX Compatible 128 MB Video Card, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 110 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 95 percent. On the same math Due Process ($9.99, scores 54) and Schedule I ($19.99, scores 92) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Space Trader: Merchant Marine
Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 254 reviews written there were positive, against 50 percent overall, and those are 56 percent of everything written about it.
6.9 hours to finish it, 15 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
55% start to 7% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 17, 15:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A fun, short and cheap game. It's clearly unfinished, but what's there works well and is enjoyable for a few hours. It's a fairly simple trading sim with some FPS combat and exploration. Find quests, complete them for money, take advantage of the market, deliberately manipulate the market, etc. Parts 2 and 3 are the meat of the game and are quite enjoyable.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Introduction (2.5/5): "Space Trader: Merchant Marine," developed by Hermitworks Entertainment and released in 2008, attempts to combine trading simulation with arcade-style space combat. While it introduces an interesting concept, the game falls short of delivering a fully immersive or satisfying experience in either aspect. Graphics and Presentation (2.5/5): The visual presentation of "Space Trader: Merchant...
Ever since I played the original Starflight, I've always had a soft spot for space trading type games. While Space Trader: Merchant Marine has a good trading foundation, it feels severely unpolished and overly repetitious. The game is essentially a hybrid shooter with trading elements. The gameplay is fun, but after the second chapter, you've pretty much done everything there is to do. I'd say most people will get...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Space Trader: Merchant Marine scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/11240/space-trader-merchant-marineReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.